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From: "Øystein Walle" <oystwa@gmail•com>
To: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Improve user-manual html and pdf formatting
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2014 22:12:00 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20140104T230716-552@post.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87lhyv5s79.fsf@igel.home

Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org> writes:

> > That's a Unicode Byte Order Mark.
> 
> No, its an ampersand, a hash, a number and a semicolon.  Definitely not
> a BOM.
> 
> Andreas.
> 

You're right, of course :) I was a bit hasty.

#65279; is a HTML entity (or at least something like looks like one) for the
character U+FEFF, which also serves as the Byte Order Mark. I assume the
entity was added to the file by mistake.

Øsse

  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-04 22:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-04  9:07 [PATCH] Improve user-manual html and pdf formatting Thomas Ackermann
2014-01-04 21:18 ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-01-04 21:38   ` Øystein Walle
2014-01-04 21:54     ` Andreas Schwab
2014-01-04 22:12       ` Øystein Walle [this message]
2014-01-05  8:22   ` Aw: " Thomas Ackermann
2014-01-06 17:20 ` Junio C Hamano

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